Seminar of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics: Rocío Ranchal
Seminars of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics: Magnetoelastic thin films
On May 19, a new session of the Seminars of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics of the University of Zaragoza will be held by Rocío Ranchal from the Complutense University of Madrid who will give a lecture entitled: Magnetoelastic thin films.
The session will take place on Friday, May 19 at 12.30 pm in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zaragoza.
The cycle of Seminars of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics has the collaboration of the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, INMA, a joint institute of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Zaragoza.
Summary: Magnetoelasticity exploits the correlation between mechanical and magnetic properties. Magnetostrictive materials have been used in different fields ranging from SONAR to magnetic sensors. Nowadays, there is even a new field of research called straintronics that is gaining attention from the scientific community. In this talk I will discuss our recent work on magnetoelastic thin films, mainly Fe72Ga28 and Ni90Fe10. Magnetic properties can be tuned thanks to growth parameters for example when using sputtering or electrodeposition. In addition, we have also investigated the possibility of coupling these two materials systems.
Rocío Ranchal is Full Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) where she is currently working on magnetostrictive thin films and new magnetic materials for energy applications. She got her PhD from UCM at 2006 with a work on magnetic transport in metallic multilayers and diluted magnetic heterostructures. From 2006 to 2008 she performed at postdoc stay at Paul-Drude-Institut (Germany). In 2007 she got the Prize for Young Researchers in the category of experimental Physics from the Spanish Royal Physics Society (RSEF). Prof. Ranchal has collaborated with national and international investigators such as Dr. M. Ciria (Spain), Profs. M. Bibes (France), A. Barthélémy (France), Prof. M. Marangolo (France), Dr. D. Haskel (USA), etc.
